Citrix Systems 6.1.0 Using Scvmm and Scom with XenServer, Integration Requirements for Scvmm

Chapter 6. Using SCVMM and SCOM with XenServer

XenServer's Integration Suite Supplemental Pack allows inter-operation with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 and Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2. SVCMM allows you to centrally create and manage VMs across the entire datacenter. It enables full lifecycle management of both Microsoft HyperV hosts and XenServer pools through one centralized interface. SCOM enables monitoring of host performance when installed on a XenServer host.

Both of these tools can be integrated with your XenServer pool by installing the Integration Suite Supplemental Pack on each of your XenServer hosts.

6.1. How to install the Integration Suite Supplemental Pack

The XenServer Integration Suite Supplemental Pack is available for download from the XenServer area of My Citrix. Customers will require a My Citrix account to access this page. If you do not have an account, you can register on the My Citrix home page.

Warning:

The Integration Suite Supplemental Pack must only be installed onto a running system.

6.1.1. Installing the Integration Suite onto a Running XenServer System

1.Download the Supplemental Pack directly to the XenServer host to be updated (Citrix recommends storing it in the /tmp/ directory), or first download the file to an Internet-connected computer, and burn the ISO image to a CD.

2.Use XenCenter to access the XenServer host's console, or use secure shell (ssh) to login directly.

3.Mount the Supplemental Pack image. Depending on whether the driver disk is still in ISO form, or has been burnt to CD, the directory to be mounted will vary.

For a CD-ROM, use:

mkdir -p /mnt/tmp

mount /dev/<path-to-cd-rom> /mnt/tmp cd /mnt/tmp/

./install.sh cd /

umount /mnt/tmp

To install from an ISO use the following method:

mkdir -p /mnt/tmp

mount /dev/<path-to-iso> /mnt/tmp cd /mnt/tmp/

./install.sh cd /

umount /mnt/tmp

6.2. Integration Requirements for SCVMM

To enable integration with SCVMM following configuration is required:

•A host running SCVMM 2012.

•A XenServer host with storage and networking pre-configured using XenCenter.

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